CAREER OBJECTIVE: To utilize my Web design and writing experience in a progressive, fast-paced environment.

SKILLS: HTML, HomeSite, Photoshop, Project Management, Open AdStream (OAS), Image Ready, WebTrends, BBEdit, GifBuilder, Filemaker Pro, MKS, Clear Case, Word, Excel, Quark, some JavaScript, Perl, and Unix.

Experience:

June '01 to present

Comedy Notes Columnist
Boston Globe

Comedy Notes: writing the "Comedy Notes" column for The Boston Globe, appearing twice a month. Reporting on the local comedy scene, including interviews with and features about Mort Sahl, David Cross, Jimmy Tingle, and local comics, bookers, talent scouts and related industry people.

October `97 to present

Freelance Writer

Interviews: George Carlin, Jon Stewart., Kids in the Hall, Jay Mohr, Penn & Teller (The Boston Phoenix, Boston, MA); Bill Hicks (Playboy.com); Lewis Black, Jonathan Katz, Robert Schimmel (Stuff @ Night, Boston, MA); Ray Mason, The Rivergods (No Depression, Seattle, WA); Superchunk, Kenny Roby (Amplifier, Westford, MA)

News and Feature articles: The Boston Phoenix, The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY), Gadfly.org, Buffalo Beat and Online Buffalo

Reviews (music, book, gaming and software) : The Boston Globe, The Buffalo News, Amplifier Magazine, Online Buffalo, PC Game World and Ozone Games

Boston, Ma September '00 - Jan '02

User Interface Specialist
Northern Light Technologies, Incorporated / www.northernlight.com

Design: create Web pages and customize "Special Editions" for public consumption and for Northern Light’s corporate clients. Contribute to the design of NorthernLight.com, NLResearch.com, and Northern Light’s portals and pages. Focus on developing interfaces to make pages clean and useful to the public.

Maintenance: update NorthernLight.com, and NLResearch.com. Weekly updates of content and interface elements for "Special Editions".

Advertising: represent UI team in Ad Sales meetings to brainstorm and create ideas for advertising to be used on the site. Included work with Photoshop and Image Ready

Leadership: direct User Interface team in creating advertising for house campaigns.

Boston, Ma Oct '98 - Aug '00

Web Production Assistant
The Boston Phoenix / www.bostonphoenix.com

Content: extract stories from print version of The Boston Phoenix and post them to The Phoenix's online site; format online word / image files

Design: create banner advertising for sales clients; create Web sites for sales clients; create online promotions for marketing department

Reporting: banner ad inventory / site statistics for all three Phoenix Web sites and the WFNX radio Web site for the sales and marketing departments

Buffalo, NY Feb `98 to Dec `98; June '96 - Sept '97

Associate Editor
Edit Ink

Responsible for editing and critiquing unpublished fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, including books and short stories. Assignments included reading approximately 600 pages and writing one to two critiques per week.

Buffalo, NY Feb '98 - Nov '98

Stringer
The Buffalo News

Contributed news and entertainment features, interviews and reviews as a contract employee. Covered the comedy beat.

Buffalo, NY Sept '97 - Feb '98

Editor-in-Chief
Online Buffalo / www.onlinebuffalo.com

Responsible for soliciting and editing all content, as well as developing and conceptualizing sections of the online magazine. Included writing news, essays, sports, arts and entertainment, and various other types of pieces.

Buffalo, NY June `96

SUNY Buffalo
Bachelor Degrees: English and International Studies

Activities: Senior Editor, Campus Editor with Generation Magazine; DJ with WRUB radio; actor, director with EGATS! theater group.